26 April 2012 Last updated at 13:17 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Rupert Murdoch: “Someone took charge of a cover-up which we were victim to” Rupert Murdoch says there was a “cover-up” at the News of the World but he insists it was kept hidden from him. The News...
26 April 2012 Last updated at 12:50 ET International judges have found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war. Taylor, 64, has been on trial in The Hague at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone for almost five years. He was accused...
25 April 2012 Last updated at 07:30 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. ‘Everything is going up in the shops and wages aren’t’ The UK economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012. A sharp fall in construction output was behind the...
25 April 2012 Last updated at 13:12 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jeremy Hunt: “I intend to respond fully to allegations about my conduct and that of my department” Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told MPs he “strictly followed due process” in the way he handled a controversial BSkyB...
24 April 2012 Last updated at 15:53 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Jeremy Hunt says he has been “scrupulous” and will not resign Labour has called for Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to resign after Leveson Inquiry evidence appeared to show his support for News Corp’s bid for BSkyB. During...
24 April 2012 Last updated at 12:08 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The body of Gareth Williams was found locked in the bag in the bath of his London flat Specks of unexplained DNA were found on the holdall containing the curled-up body of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, his...
23 April 2012 Last updated at 14:11 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. David Cameron says he is “absolutely driven by wanting to help people” David Cameron has told the BBC he wants the government to “do better” after a “difficult month”, but rejected accusations he is out of touch....
23 April 2012 Last updated at 12:18 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Inside Gareth Williams’s flat An MI6 officer found dead in his flat had been a “scrupulous risk-assessor” and only let “vetted” people into his home, his sister has told an inquest. The body of Gareth Williams, 31,...
22 April 2012 Last updated at 16:55 ET French Socialist Francois Hollande has won most votes in the first round of the country’s presidential election, estimates show. They suggest he got more than 28% of votes against about 26% for centre-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. The two men will face each other in a second...
22 April 2012 Last updated at 12:51 ET About 37,500 amateur athletes, fun runners and elite sportsmen and women have run the Virgin London Marathon. Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang won the men’s elite race with a time of 2:04:44 and Mary Keitany, also from Kenya, defended her title with a time of 2:18:37. The men’s...
